Windows 2000 can't remove corrupted user account

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Both my administrator and a personal user account are corrupted. Everytime
I boot up I'm in a temporary user account. I've removed the personal user
account and added a new personal one(with administrator permissions). After
rebooting into the new personal one, I tried to add another personal user
account using the name of the corrupted one. But I get an error message
saying that I can'tl add this user name because it "already has permission
to use this computer".

Apparently removing the user account wasn't enough. Does anyone know what I
have to do to completely remove this account so that I can use the same name
again?

John
 
I suspect that you only removed the profile in the System Properties
Profile tab. Open the Local Users and Groups snap-in and remove the
user account there. To open the snap-in enter lusrmgr.msc in the
Start Menu Run box.

John

jbclem wrote:

> Both my administrator and a personal user account are corrupted. Everytime
> I boot up I'm in a temporary user account. I've removed the personal user
> account and added a new personal one(with administrator permissions). After
> rebooting into the new personal one, I tried to add another personal user
> account using the name of the corrupted one. But I get an error message
> saying that I can'tl add this user name because it "already has permission
> to use this computer".
>
> Apparently removing the user account wasn't enough. Does anyone know what I
> have to do to completely remove this account so that I can use the same name
> again?
>
> John
>
>
 
This article may help.

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=296834



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"jbclem" wrote:
> Both my administrator and a personal user account are corrupted.
> Everytime
> I boot up I'm in a temporary user account. I've removed the personal user
> account and added a new personal one(with administrator permissions).
> After
> rebooting into the new personal one, I tried to add another personal user
> account using the name of the corrupted one. But I get an error message
> saying that I can'tl add this user name because it "already has permission
> to use this computer".
>
> Apparently removing the user account wasn't enough. Does anyone know what
> I
> have to do to completely remove this account so that I can use the same
> name
> again?
>
> John
>
>
 
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